The French Revolution of 1789 and the wars that followed radically changed the mahogany trade, primarily due to the progressive collapse of the French and Spanish colonial empires, which allowed British traders into areas previously closed to them.

At a time when French musicians were divided into conservative and progressive factions, Dukas adhered to neither but retained the admiration of both.

Though adhering to neither the progressive or conservative factions among French musicians of the era, Dukas had the friendship and respect of both.

Larsson was not eager to establish contact with the French progressive Impressionists ; instead, along with other Swedish artists, he cut himself off from the radical movement of change.

In 1943, he was awarded an Honorary Oscar Certificate for " progressive cultural achievement " in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference ( certificate ).

During the French Revolution, conservative forces ( especially the Roman Catholic Church ) organized opposition to the progressive socio-political and economic changes brought by the revolution, and to fight to restore the temporal authority of the Church and Crown.

Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a " vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future " that profoundly disturbed him.

Category: French progressive rock groups

Neoclassicism first gained influence in England and France, through a generation of French art students trained in Rome and influenced by the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and it was quickly adopted by progressive circles in Sweden.

In the early 70s, Breton musician Alan Stivell ( Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique ) launched the field of French folk-rock by combining psychedelic and progressive rock sounds with Breton and Celtic folk styles.

Some of these people were members of the few wealthy Muslim families that had managed to insinuate themselves into the colonial system in the 1890s and had with difficulty succeeded in obtaining for their sons the French education coveted by progressive Algerians.

The Abbé Pierre also maintained a relationship with the progressive French Catholic Bishop Jacques Gaillot, to which he recalled his duty of " instinct of a measured insolence ", and wasn't personally close to Mother Teresa.

Davis is a big fan of the French progressive rock band Magma, and even organised a concert in London so he could watch them.

The Cosmopolitan Party of Canada ( French: Parti Cosmopolite du Canada ) is a minor socially progressive political party in Canada that began to develop in the 2000s.

French for instance, has an imperfect tense form similar to that of German but used only for past habitual or past progressive contexts like " I used to ..." or " I was doing ...".

Pawley's government introduced progressive labour legislation, and entrenched French language services in Manitoba's parliamentary and legal systems.

The French Canadians did not necessarily have to give up their religion and language entirely, but their culture could not be protected at the expense of what Durham considered a more progressive British culture.

This, combined with the new ideas let loose by the French Revolution of 1789, began to reconnect the Greeks with the outside world and led to the development of an active nationalist movement, one of the most progressive of the time.

She had also warned that the UMP government planned a " progressive privatization of the French Social Security system from 2011 " – a condition imposed by the financial markets.

* A single from L ' Enfant Sauvage, the fifth album by the French progressive death / groove metal band Gojira.

Adagio is a French progressive metal band formed in 2001 by guitarist Stephan Forté.

Mitterrand's political view proved prescient in that, as the BBC noted as of 2010, after a progressive rift with the Kagame-led regime that has ruled Rwanda since 1994 ( described in greater detail below ), Rwanda repeatedly broke diplomatic relations with France ; the Rwandan government shut down all French institutions in Rwanda, including schools and cultural organisations, with only some being subsequently reopened ; the language of instruction in Rwandan schools " has even been switched from French to English "; and Rwanda strove to join the British-led Commonwealth, thus becoming one of only two members that were not former British colonies.

This most commonly appears as a cyclical progressive change in cardiac axis, previously referred to by its French name torsades de pointes (" twisting of the points ").

* Florent Mothe portrays Salieri in the 2009 French musical " Mozart, l ' opéra rock ".

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer ( Les Variations )

The European powers then determined to intervene, and authorized the landing in Beirut of a body of French troops under General Beaufort d ' Hautpoul, whose inscription can still be seen on the historic rock at the mouth of Nahr al-Kalb.

* Eiffel ( band ), a French rock group

: Includes five archipelagoes ; Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean-the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Nauru

The harmonica, also called French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean — the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia.

The word " parsley " is a merger of the Old English petersilie ( which is identical to the contemporary German word for parsley: Petersilie ) and the Old French peresil, both derived from Medieval Latin petrosilium, from Latin petroselinum, the latinisation of the Greek πετροσέλινον ( petroselinon ), " rock-parsley ", from πέτρα ( petra ), " rock, stone ", + σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

* Phoenix ( band ), French alternative rock band

In non-singing roles you find Ringo Starr as a villain in Blindman and French rock ' n ' roll veteran Johnny Hallyday as the gunfighter / avenger hero in Sergio Corbucci's The Specialist.

* March – French geologist Louis Lartet discovers the first identified skeletons of Cro-Magnon, the first early modern humans ( early Homo sapiens sapiens ), at Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.

* Iris ( British / French band ), an instrumental rock group

The word ' Rococo ' is derived from the French " rocaille ", a word used to describe the rock and shell work of the Versailles grottoes.

But the exact rock known as the French Blue was never seen again, since it almost certainly was recut during this decades-long period of anonymity, probably into two pieces, and the larger one became the Hope Diamond.

The name " Dolomites " is derived from the famous French mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu who was the first to describe the rock, dolomite, a type of carbonate rock which is responsible for the characteristic shapes and colour of these mountains ; previously they were called the " pale mountains ," and it was only in the early 19th century that the name was Gallicized.

Saumur is also the scene for Balzac's novel Eugénie Grandet, written by the French author in 1833, and the title of a song from hard rock band Trust ( whose lyrics express their poor opinion of the city: narrow-minded, bourgeois and militaristic ).

Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music, he was renowned for his often provocative and scandalous releases, as well as his diverse artistic output, which embodied genres ranging from jazz, chanson, pop and yé-yé, to reggae, funk, rock, electronic and disco music.

His music has many influences, such as punk, rock, French chanson, Iberoamerican salsa, reggae, ska, and Algerian raï.

McQuickly formed the punk rock group Punk Floyd with his French wife, Martini ( he sang ; she did not ); Nasty turned his back on the world ; Wom became two hairdressers, as per a joke once made to the press ; and O ' Hara found work for Air India as an air hostess.

However, West's 2007 single " Stronger " used a prominent sample from a song by the French dance-oriented electronic act Daft Punk, whose work in the 1990s and early 2000s was also becoming highly sampled and influential on the musical aesthetic of acts in other genres such as indie rock and indie dance.

* Rock-Eval, a standardized pyrolysis apparatus designed at the French Institute of Petroleum ( IFP ) to assess the oil potential of a sedimentary rock

In the field of classical music, France has produced a number of legendary composers, like Gabriel Faure, while modern pop music has seen the rise of popular French hip hop, French rock, techno / funk, and turntablists / djs.

The earliest stars were an imitation of French pop, at the time itself an imitation of American and British pop and rock.